Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Akaroa. Type: K, Raoul.

Branches often procumbent below. Lvs > 1 cm. long, broad and serrate above, narrowing cuneately to rather long petiole. Infl. broad and compact. Bracts obtuse to subacute. Two anterior calyx-lobes fused almost to tip, the other two obtuse and overlapping posteriorally.

DIST.: S. Drier mountains and hills of Canterbury. On rock.

FL. 10-12-3.

There is a specimen in CM collected at Purau by J. F. Armstrong in 1866, but no sure record from Banks Peninsula since that date.